Music quotes

“Velcro. Next to the Walkman and tab it is the coolest invention of the 20th century.”
Helen Hunt - Lynne Stone

Walt Disney described the art of animation as a voyage of discovery, into the realms of color, sound, and motion. The music from Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" inspires such a voyage.
Dame Angela Lansbury - Herself - Hostess (segment "Firebird Suite - 1919 Version")

“- Marty DiBergi: Do you feel that playing rock 'n' roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?
- Derek Smalls: No. No. No. I feel it's like, it's more like going, going to a, a national park or something. And there's, you know, they preserve the moose. And that's, that's my childhood up there on stage....” (continue)(continue reading)
Rob Reiner - Marty DiBergi
Harry Shearer - Derek Smalls

“In 1957, the bomb dropped, and the Russians took over what was America. The last bastion of freedom became a place called Lost Vegas, and Elvis was crowned King. After forty rockin' years, The King is dead. Every guitar picking, sword swinging opportunist, including Death himself, hears the call echoing across the wastelands... Vegas needs a new...” (continue)(continue reading)

- Executioner: Any last requests?
- Roy Knable: Yeah, how about the long version of "Stairway to Heaven"?
- Executioner: I'm afraid that is not where you are going.

Gordon Masten - Executioner
John Ritter - Roy Knable

“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

“That techno-rock you guys listen to is gutless.”
Nicolas Cage - Randy

“Heavy metal bands on trial because kids commit suicide, what is that about? Judas Priest on trial because my kid bought the records, and he listened to the lyrics, and he go into Satan...”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“When they attack the car, save the radio.”
Nicolas Cage - Randy

“All I wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing... and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If He didn't want me to praise him with music, why implant the desire? Like a lust in my body! And then deny me the talent?”
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“- Cooper: Hulse, I want you to put a special mike on him tonight, one that isolates everything he plays from the rest of the orchestra. Carson, you link it into the GBLX 1000 computer.
- Maddy: The GBLX?
- Cooper: Yeah. That thing'll break any code.
- Maddy: But that's in control of our entire missile defense system!”

Dabney Coleman - Cooper
Lori Singer - Maddy

“Let me give you a piece of advice, junior: your music make sense to no one... but yourself.”

Billy Sparks - Billy

“Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off with shotguns? Where's the problem? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection.”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“We're better than anyone, aren't we? Except for The Eagles; The Eagles are better than us.”

Sid Vicious - The Gimmick

- Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of...
- Marty DiBergi: What do you call this?
- Nigel Tufnel: Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump".

Christopher Guest - Nigel Tufnel
Rob Reiner - Marty DiBergi

“He even took the gramophone on safari. Three rifles, supplies for a month, and Mozart.”

Meryl Streep - Karen

“- Cooper: Professor Chermenko, what about that handwriting?
- Prof. Chermenko: Ah. Richard Drew is a complex man, filled to the breaking point with psychological conflicts. His violin is a substitute for severe anger and repression. Sexual repression.”
Dabney Coleman - Cooper
Jeff Ware - Prof. Chermenko

“- Andy: Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, hey ladies?
- Vera: Aye, but we can do without the drugs and rock 'n' roll!”
Ewan McGregor - Andy
Sue Johnston - Vera

“- William Miller: So Russell... what do you love about music?
- Russell Hammond: To begin with, everything.”
Patrick Fugit - William Miller
Billy Crudup - Russell Hammond

“- George Banks: I suggest you have this piano repaired. When I sit down to an instrument, I like to have it in tune.
- Mrs. Banks: But, George, you don't play.
- George Banks: Madam, that is entirely beside the point!”
David Tomlinson - Mr. Banks
Glynis Johns - Mrs. Banks

“- Marvin Isherwood: What's that? And why did you have it sent here?
- Stanley Goodspeed: Carla wouldn't approve. She thinks it's dumb to spend $600 on an LP.
- Marvin Isherwood: Carla's right. Why didn't you just spend $13 on a CD, man?
- Stanley Goodspeed: Well, first of all, it's because I'm a Beatlemaniac. And second, these sound better.”

Todd Louiso - Marvin Isherwood
Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed

“You can stop me, but you're never gonna stop rock and roll!”
Tim McIntire - Alan Freed

“Astounding! It was actually, it was beyond belief. These were first and only drafts of music, but they showed no corrections of any kind. Not one. He had simply written down music already finished in his head!”

F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“- Cosmo Carboni: You've got to start off every morning by croning to that low-life, bag bird?
- Victor Carboni: Bella likes music in the morning.
- Cosmo Carboni: Yeah? Then buy the bum a radio!”
Sylvester Stallone - Cosmo Carboni
Lee Canalito - Victor Carboni

“Music is the hardest profession of them all.”
Albert Hague - Shorofsky